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Want an offbeat gift that will make your life and your family’s easier next spring, summer and fall? Then you might want to think about this. If your neighbors use a lawn or garden service, you may want to know what is being sprayed or dumped on their lawns and gardens and when that’s going […]

Tomorrow at 3:45 am you can see the latest ‘super moon’, although it rises here at 4:38 pm this afternoon and will be full. I had never heard the term, ‘Super Moon’, until a few years ago, maybe that’s because it comes from astrology. A super moon appears only 10-14% larger than your usual full […]

It’s as if they’ve never left. That’s because they haven’t. Beginning in the spring during what the lawn and garden services call ‘spring clean up’; then week after week through the summer and all day for days during ‘fall clean up’, leaf blowers shatter the stillness. Around here the lawn and garden care workers descend […]

We hear a lot about climate change these days. Sure, we have had some of the warmest years recently since records were kept, but many don’t care and a few even think climate change is a hoax or fearmongering, though why thousands of scientists would want to perpetrate a hoax or purposely make us afraid […]

Ever hear of climate change’s evil twin, ocean acidification? You might have heard scientists talk about it and wondered what the heck it was all about. I know I did. Ocean acidification is a mouthful for what could be a huge problem. Apparently the ocean has been absorbing air pollution – CO2 – since the […]

You probably recycle like most Mainers do. But did you ever wonder where your recycled stuff goes? Does it just become garbage? Or is it reincarnated as something else? We have more and more plastics in our recycling bin these days – plastics from berry, yogurt, some kinds of milk, cottage cheese, eggs, lettuce containers […]

Why are we still alive? That’s a question my wife and I ask one another when another health crises hits the news. Take the cars we knew growing up. If you are like me, I look back on the cars my family owned with a lot of nostalgia. But these cars had no seat belts; […]

Does it really matter if you eat organic foods? More and more we are seeing organic fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets, but these organic sections are usually dwarfed by all the other fruit and vegetables in the supermarket produce sections. Ever hear of organophosphates? They are the foundation of many pesticides and the EPA […]

Ever wonder if your children’s playground and sports field have been treated with possible dangerous pesticides? Most of us know that some synthetic chemical pesticides can be especially harmful to children as well as teens. Maybe you have seen the numbers: almost half of the commonly used lawn fertilizers may cause cancer; many can cause […]

If you are a dog owner, we need your help. Our streams and river have been tested and retested by FP Environmental Associates, the environmental group working with our town and with the Conservation Commission to find the sources of bacterial contamination in our streams and river. FP Environmental tests our waters when its dry […]